Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-11
IN SUNNY ITALY.
Will r\RGE0SS LETTER FROM AMONG
THE ALPS.
fir, y.ql Paa Anoag the Mountains Spring,
,gaa,- and Winter at Oncs-Ths Chicago
ai Ialy-Tbs Kings Palace
PtrFs Galleries.
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,, DIR Hpordrcs Of TIE S,mdds RcGiSsr.
TrgIS, HNLY, November, 1SS7.-Iu
r.,Iv At last and one OF the dreams Of q
ric,ime come true! We have threaded the
ava Of Mount Gems, and are rushing along
toward TIE plains of Turin, with snow
r,,,f-l mouatlias on every side The race
Of engineers his toiled very hard and skill
rlIv to give Us this metal path along the
AIMS The railroad corporations that takes
nIssenvrs along the edge Of Crawford
Notch, n New Hampshire, and charges
them tie greater part of a dollar per mile
for long it, could here get some points in
the running Of mountain lines. There is
. latter cut, bridge after bridge, and tun-
mel after tunnel TO the number of two
dozen, until We seem TO be dashiDg from
one dungeon to another, with burstso of free
magnificent scenery between.
Nov and then a village has cuddled it,
self Gown into one of The yalleys-remind-
ing as Of the pretty hSmletsy you see among
toe mountains Of New Englsnd.-only
there are several centuries OF difference be-
tween the appearance Of the W. Once in
d while Il goOd-sizpd tOy-City has planted
ITSELF upon a hill slGe-djggiDg into the
pcky soil rs il were with the tOe-nails OF
T. foundations, while az the very foot OF
e. streets desJsnds a straight off precipice
fhalt a mile OF more. How q baby ever
tops, after il once gets to rolling down one
d these streets, | cannot imagine. Life iii
such q village Gus be intensely exciting.
and consists largely of peoples heading of
each other from the verge Of destruction.
We Dass in sight Of three seasons.
Around us is the crisp air and golden sun
shine OF Autumn. Beneath US hundreds
OBJECT, the rIllS Of Spring murmur their
way toward the sea. Above Us the frosts
nod SHOWS OF Winter keep their cold and
beautiful! silence. except when they speak
With the white tongue OF an avalanche.
Sometime, the delicate evergreen trees OF
An entire m~OuatIiu-slde have been covered
with rain that frozs as il fell, and the
whole ggsuuc hill flashes in a corrugated
cloak ID silver. Away beyond and above
this q higher mountain will hold up its
mighty dIiU;S 20 frat raizs with the white
clouds We are rushing along among
MANSIONS FIT FOR THE GODS,
The paCple that We see at stations, and
in the coaches, are becoming more and
more slubhy and swarthy. The guard OF
the traiu--a kind Of conductor and brake
man IN ou-, looks exactly like the tourist
from Italy Who waudsrs along wi streets
NJ home IN The early morning, and explores
tine asn-harrel with al iron hook. Women
dong their washing IN the roadside streams
aresmalI and u,-!Iyore1. These mountains
seem 10 have horne dwaris. A few soldiers
m shabby uniforms look too small to par
tIc,uLte IN = g7Owu-up battle, and make US
voudrr 1T MAGENTA and S0iferInO. Beg
ErS spria. up out OF the earth, uGdressed
IN the care .ily arrayed rags OF professional
poverty. IN old g~Eay-naired woman is
pluugllus ia s. harrgE-lockipg field, with
pair o. .u"s-thc yoke twiued about their
horns. People ak TO each other in 4
queer diaiyc; o Frenchand Italian, broken
ami ground together.
Bur Wonder upon enc OF the hills we
caught p glimpse Of an old triumphal arch
OF the Emperor Augustus, whom his rough
way undertook 20 c~gyI,ile the barbarOuS
m~Ountnus,r- ut thi~ region some eighteen
hundred !. a--aso. lie JoUuG Rome brick.
AMI irI, a. m.r.r~, ~ found these people
As savage : q lot OF Sioux Indians, ard
made tbtui .ysu.J; ;pe FORMS % civilization.
Aud he wss rely the Ia:her 81 THIS mag
indecent city pt Turin into which We are
now vamilg--a place ~ Large IS San Fran
cisco, AMI the COMMERCIAL centre Of Pied
mont.
Piedmont, through a part Of which We
have Jas h.ru 'raveltIUV, IS the north
western Stat OF tn- kingdom OF Italy. Ii
Is about a. .aguu - Naryiand, aud has four
times s. many iing5:ttnts IL has Alps 10
the ucyth AIT w,st, aut Apprentices to the
south. lts name Is q good description OF
its u,u.r.I characteristics, tor "PIede'
means ..,r' no f.each and Italian, and
'mun.' mouutaiu-the whole signitymg
-, the foot vt mcuutaiuS.' Upon the
halt sheltered highlands, ~grape-yiues and
sIlk-woImS are 'u ling away for their hui
man ma-ter-; AMI the lOwlaudS of the 20
yield good crops cf rice and maize.
Ii q, Lc trouhle to find our way 10 the
Hotel d'EarJpe, for Turin Is laid ont rs
regularly rs a chcss-board. Hannibal, the
Napo,e0u OF Clrthage, destroyed what
there wus OF 1t two hundred years before
Christ, ald ! should not have particularly
cured as thar uue 10 arrive here IN the
might with some laGits. But the plan
which Augustus made when he replatted
10. h., been aahslryt to and enlarged upon,
until this Is acw q cliy with straight, broad
streets, beautiful ptrI,,au aTcades, thirty
shops, ami &u ambitious and powerful
population. 70 Use ttime-wOrn American
figure, IL - the
CHICAGO OF ITALY.
Turin has the reputation Of being the
mos, waTISe town IN ~thiSc0Untry. II has
always been IN" his ightiu. hruther Of the
remaining I-lhau c,.ies. When that Ions
family prnrr~-l"u OF dukes and prince,
ina.ly evolved -,-ue kings who a>pired TO
govern all itaty, Isgr3a WAS their capital
and she " entitled 20 be by virtue of her
tOrm,r struggles. Within a stones throw
from he hotel IN which l write is the
quaint old hrllGiuC in which Victor I'm,
manuel II. was bora; but it is not 50 proud
q place - the little assembly room near by
IN which C,vOur used to sit--Cavour,
whose brain did more for Italy than cen,
turiys-iull o. soldiers and generals.
lie seems u have been q sort of BismarcE
and Gladstone made into one. be WAS {
Liberal to-day, . Conservative tomorrow
and % patriot al the time. He had no
only 10 steer The country, Int 10 make it a
he went aiyng. lie found Italy divided
into several petty States, aud some OF i
under Au,jr III riOmruion; when he ditd il
was united kingdom.
My guide to-day an old mauOtsiNty
and knew CayOur personally. He showeC
LIE the st2tesman's chair in that Gtt't
amphjtheatrc Of hall, shaped like medi
cal students ecitation-rOOms-.oue row o.
seats rising sharply behind another. 'Or
this cEaIr-avm he did lean his elbow wher
NJ was speaking" said the old Italian
HE was slow IN his talk. but every WORD
1T did weigh = hundred k~ilogrammes
tie would ~ among soldiers from the
country districts, and ask them what did
The peasants think OF him. and what WA